Art Historical Studies on Relic Ostentations and their catalogs

从15^世纪末<th>到16^世纪初<th>，德国的许多城市都出版了许多遗物书籍《Heiltumsbuecher》和遗物印刷品《Reliquienblatt》。本研究的目的是从艺术史的角度来考察这些书籍。此外，由于这种出版物在日本还不知名，因此将这些书籍翻译成日语也是本研究的重要目的。通过对巴伐利亚国家图书馆、德国国家博物馆纽伦堡、奥地利国家图书馆等欧洲图书馆的考察，大多数的遗物书籍，如纽伦堡，班贝格，维尔茨堡，维也纳，维滕贝格和哈雷，被详细调查。此外，通过出版物，其他文物书籍从特里尔，霍尔和亚琛和文物版画的安德克斯，纽伦堡和奥格斯堡进行了研究。虽然在早期的文物书籍，纽伦堡（1487年，1493年），维尔茨堡（1493年）和班贝格（1493年）插图功能仅仅是作为一个标志，插图文物书的维也纳（1502年）试图代表每个舍利更现实的细节。然后在遗物书的维滕贝格（1509年）的插图不是更忠实的复制品的圣物箱，但克拉纳赫的艺术作品。相反，它的哈雷（1521年）文物书是相当忠实的阿尔布雷希特冯勃兰登堡收集目录。每一本文物书都有各自不同的功能，这取决于情况、赞助者和艺术家。预计在下一阶段的研究中，将本研究的结果与日本和东亚的例子进行比较。

From the late 15^<th> century to the beginning of the 16^<th> century many relic books, Heiltumsbuecher, and relic prints, Reliquienblatt, were published in many cities of Germany. The aim of this study is to investigate these books from art historical points of view. Also, because this kind of publication is not yet well-known in Japan, translating these books into Japanese is also a important purpose of this study. Through investigations at some European libraries, as Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg and Oestterreichsche Nationalbilbiothek etc., most of relic books, as of Nuremberg, Bamberg, Wurzburg, Vienna, Wittenberg and Halle, were minutely investigated. Also through publications other relic books from Trier, Hall and Aachen and relic prints of Andechs, Nuremberg and Augsburg are studied. While in the earlier relic books, of Nuremberg (1487, 1493), Wurzburg (1493) and Bamberg (1493) illustrations function merely as a sign, the illustrations of relic book of Vienna (1502) tried to represent each reliquary more realistic in detail. Then in the relic book of Wittenberg (1509) the illustrations are not more faithful reproductions of reliquaries, but Cranach's art works. In contrast to it the relic book of Halle (1521) is rather a faithful catalog of the collection of Albrecht von Brandenburg. Each relic books has each different function depending on the situation, the sponsor and the artist. It is expected to compare the results from this study with Japanese and East-Asian examples in the next stage of the study.